Artist

Magdalene Odundo

b. 1950, Nairobi, Kenya · Based in Surrey, UK

West Surrey College of Art and Design
Royal College of Art, London

Ceramic Sculpture
Burnished Terracotta

Dame Magdalene Odundo is a British-Kenyan ceramic artist celebrated for sinuous, anthropomorphic vessels hand-coiled without a potter's wheel. Drawing from ancient Greek pottery, sub-Saharan African ceramics, and modernist sculpture (Brâncuși, Arp), Odundo burnishes and gas-fires her terracotta vessels to produce iridescent black and orange surfaces.

Gallery Representation

Xavier Hufkens →

Museums & Public Collections

British Museum, London →
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York →
Victoria and Albert Museum, London →
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. →

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